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1) California and the Birth of the Modern Garden
Author Wade Graham of American Eden explores the birth and career of the modern garden in California between 1920 and the 1960s.
2) President's Series: Parable of the Sower, A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind the #1 bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, discuss their new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the So...Show More
3) Why It Matters: Drew Gilpin Faust and Karen R. Lawrence
Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence speaks with Drew Gilpin Faust, former president of Harvard and Civil War scholar, about the importance of the humanities.
4) The Materiality of Love
Peter Stallybrass, professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, examines a single letter that Elizabeth Barrett Barrett wrote to Hugh Stuart Boyd, a scholar with whom she was passionately i...Show More
5) Why It Matters: Karen R. Lawrence In Conversation with Carla Hayden
Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence speaks with Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress, about why archives and libraries exist and why the work they do continues to be important.
6) Transformations of the Chinese Garden
Hui-shu Lee, professor of Chinese art history at UCLA, reflects on two recipients of the Pritzker Architecture Prize—I. M. Pei and Wang Shu—and their instrumental reinterpretations of Chinese garden d...Show More
7) The Chinese in The Huntington Archives
Mae Ngai, professor of history at Columbia University, explores The Huntington's collections on the history of the American West, which includes some scattered references of the Chinese people, who we...Show More
8) Thomas Cromwell: Getting Past the Myths
Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch, emeritus professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St. Cross College, introduces his ground-breaking biography of the self-made statesma...Show More
9) The Trials of Biddy Mason
Sally Gordon (University of Pennsylvania) and Kevin Waite (Durham University) explore the role of the Mormon Church and the spread of slavery across the continent in the mid-19th century through the l...Show More
10) Centennial Paul Haaga Jr. Program on American Entrepreneurship
Featuring Paul G. Haaga Jr., Huntington Trustee emeritus, chair of the board of NPR, and retired chair of Capital Research and Management Company, in conversation with Meg Whitman, CEO of Quibi, forme...Show More